F3000: Silverstone report

• bloche@omega.gmd.de (Harald Bloche)
• MNI - Motorsport News International
• Thu Aug 22 15:55:17 EDT 1996

------FIA FORMULA 3000 INTERNATIONAL 1996 - Round 5 at Silverstone------
Pos  Driver                     Team                          Time
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1   Kenny Brack/S              Super Nova Racing Ltd        1'09:17.948
 2   Tom Kristensen/DK          Edenbridge Racing                + 0.981
 3   Riccardo Zonta/BR          Draco Engineering SRL              9.236
 4   Marcos Gueiros/BR          Super Nova Racing                 19.866
 5   Christian Pescatori/I      Durango Equipe SRL                23.214
 6   Christophe Tinseau/F       Apomatox F3000                    29.241
 7   Elton Julian/USA           Nordic Racing Ltd                 41.172
 8   Patrick Lemarie/F          Pacific Racing Ltd                41.383
 9   Fabricio Gollin/I          Durango Equipe SRL                46.996
10   Cyrille Sauvage/F          Apomatox F3000                  1:17.964
11   Gaston Mazzacane/RA        Auto Sport Racing SRL            -1 lap
12   Guillaume Gomez/F          Team Astromega BVBA               1
13   Akira Iida/J               Nordic Racing Ltd                 1
14   Esteban Tuero/RA           Draco Engineering SRL             1
15   Stephen Arnold/GB          Edenbridge Racing                 1
16   Marc Goossens/B            Team Astromega BVBA               1
17   Jean-Philippe Belloc/F     DAMS S.A.                         2
18   Stephen Watson/ZA          Team Alpha Plus Ltd               2
19   Carl Rosenblad/S           Team Alpha Plus Ltd               2

                                All cars are Lola-Zytek/Judd
FL:  Tom Kristensen 1:43.180


Standings:

Pos  Driver                     Pts
-----------------------------------
 1   Kenny Brack/S               33
 2   Jorg Muller/D               27
 3   Marcos Gueiros/BR           14
 4   Tom Kristensen/DK           11
 5   Riccardo Zonta/BR            9
     Marc Goossens/B              9
 7   Christophe Tinseau/F         8
 8   Christiano da Matta/BR       5
 9   Pedro Couceiro/P             2
     Patrick Lemarie/F            2
     Christian Pescatori/I        2
12   Laurent Redon/F              1
     Luca Rangoni/I               1
     Oliver Tichy/A               1

Swede Kenny Brack celebrated his third win of the season after a
faultless race from pole position, and took the lead again in the
championship from Jorg Muller.

Muller had set-up problems in qualifying and only made it for the
fifth position in the starting grid. Between him and Brack were
Dane Tom Kristensen in second, and the two Brazilians Christiano
da Matta and Riccardo Zonta in third and fourth.

Kenny Brack lead the race over the whole distance of 40 laps,
always shadowed by Tom Kristensen with one second behind.

Black weekend for Jorg Muller, whose inboard extinguisher had
discharged during warm up, was out of race in first lap with
electrical problems and finally a failing clutch.

After some laps the two leaders had a comfortable gap of ten seconds
to the rest of the field. Exiting was the duel for third position
between the two Brazilians Marcos Gueiros and Riccardo Zonta.
Zonta, who had a collision with Christiano da Matta in first lap,
snatched third place from Gueiros after 16 laps.

Pergusa winner Marc Goosens, who also had a bad balanced car in
qualifying, made it up to seventh position before a puncture threw him
one lap behind.

Austrian Oliver Tichy spin off in sixth lap when trying to overtake
Elton Julian.